There are few games that can provide such a complete life simulation experience asThe Sims 4does. It might not always be completely true to life, butthe experience of growing, learning, and becoming an independent person can be easily recreated in this charming game. That is a big part of what makes it so appealing.

Sometimes you will find that your little Sims are fully ready to strike out on their own. Maybe they’ve grown into full-fledged adults, and you want to continue life through their perspective, or maybe you just don’t like their living arrangements anymore.

A female Sim is using her phone, a male Sim stares at her from a few steps behind. The symbol for the Simoleon is overlapping the scene in the form of an icon while an arrow points to the same symbol, now smaller and duplicated.

How To Move A Sim Out Using The Split Household Option

The Split Household option is available in-game as youplay your currently active household; it is an option that you can accessthrough the Sim cellphone.

To use it you just need to follow these steps, while making sureyour active Sim is the one you want to move out:

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Once you confirm, you willautomatically leave the current householdto decide where to move your Sim.

After choosing a lot, you willcontinue playing as that Sim instead of going backto the household you’ve just split them from.

How To Split A Household’s Funds

The option to split fundsis integrated into the screen tosplit the householditself. You will find it at the bottom, under a small heading. This screen willshow you the current household funds on the left, a bar where you’re able to input numbers in the middle, and the funds of the new household on the right.

There will bearrows on each side of the middle bar as well; you will have to click these to move funds from one household to another.

Splitting funds is as simple asinputting an amount in the middle bar, and then clicking the corresponding arrow to move thatamount of funds. Normally, you will need toclick the right-facing arrowto transfer funds from your old household to the new one.

The left-facing arrow will let you do the reverse. A few uses for this arrow are returning funds when you’ve made a mistake, or transferring funds from another existing household into your own.

How To Move A Sim Out Using The Manage Households Option

Another way you can move a Sim out of a household is through theManage Households option in the Neighborhood view. This view will give you the option to move an entire household into a different lot orselect specific Sims to move out of one household into another.

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Developed by Maxis, The Sims 4 is a life simulation game in the vein of its predecessors. It launched in 2014, becoming one of the biggest-selling PC games of that year. In 2022, the base game became free-to-play, while paid DLC continues to be released on a regular basis.